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Old June 1st 06, 04:18 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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On Wed, 31 May 2006 15:31:36 -0400, Peter R. wrote:

The article was titled, "Airborne Traffic Alerting: TIS Still the One to
Beat," and a sidebar titled, "Why TIS is Still a Good Bet." These
articles were in the November 2005 (volume 35, Number 11) issue of
_Aviation Consumer_.


Thanks. I found it:

http://www.aviationconsumer.com/issu...rt/5496-1.html

First, this mentions that ADS-B is far from deployment. But that's not
quite true, at least around here. We're located in northern NJ, which is
right at the northernmost tip of ADS-B deployment on the East Coast. So
we'd see *some* benefit from ADS-B pretty quickly.

However, there are other interesting points. There's a paragraph which
suggests, for example, that some TIS units will be "field upgradable" to
"be useable in the ADS-B traffic world". What might that mean?

The sidebar at:

http://www.aviationconsumer.com/news.../35-11-Why.pdf

discusses my concern regarding TIS: that it is a short-term solution to be
replaced by ADS-B. However, a check of:

http://www.aviationconsumer.com/news.../35-8-Mode.pdf

shows that none of the 23 airports to lose TIS in the short term are in my
immediate neighborhood (though some are w/in just a few hours flight).

Hmm.

- Andrew